Fy, fy; if ye faint now, ye lose a good cause.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

Mr. SMALLEY goes everywhere, sees everything, knows everybody, and his readers in New York learn a great deal more of what is going on in London than some of us who live here.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 by Various

Nineteen years later, Antigonus gained possession of Corinth; but this was the last of his successes.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

And I think he hits with remarkable felicity the just mean between an undue and excessive regard to the mere externalities of worship, and a puritanical bareness and contempt for material aids, desiring, in the words of Archbishop Bramhall, that 'all be with due moderation, so as neither to render religion sordid and sluttish, nor yet light and garish, but comely and venerable.'
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

In all the main matters of life everybody must care for himself, and every commune for itself, and not you lords and gentlemen.
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

A remark follows which is not quite clear: “There is one observation which I have made, tho’ I would not yet lay any great stress upon it, that in families where any have been inoculated, those who have been afterwards seized never had an ill sort of smallpox, but always recovered very well.”
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

The second account says that it received its name from Isaac, about ninety years later, and gives a wholly different explanation of the reason why he called it by this name.
— from Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden